{"product_id":"real-cops-9781733175036","title":"Real Cops","description":"\u003cp\u003e1932. The Depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica stops eating. Teachers drop in classrooms from hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee Childress, a 23-year-old farm boy turned lawyer cannot find work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody is hiring. The military refuses recruits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee discovers the small and little-known FBI. It is a mess. 266 virginal young lawyers and accountants, without guns or arrest powers, join cynical older agents. Thrown together, they hunt Tommy gun killers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonest folks and crooks together laugh at this baby FBI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee joins because he needs a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBank robbers rip open the Midwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKidnappings for ransom happen twice a day. Corrupt politicians control entire cities and protect gangsters hiding out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocal police receive low pay and less support. They buy their own guns and use the family car for patrol. Their authority stops at the town line. The gangsters enjoy bulletproof cars, automatic weapons and networks of crooked lawyers and doctors to protect them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd, kills cops in the Kansas City Massacre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo veteran agents and Lee hunt Pretty Boy Floyd through the dark and isolated Ozark Mountains. They move undercover through villages that support Floyd as a Robin Hood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chase strains Lee's nerves. The agents hide, eat and sleep in secret. A mountain gunfight breaks out. The agents barely escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover, vows to erase the killers like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese killers write their names in blood on the streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee descends into a nervous breakdown, wild sex and alcoholism, steeling himself for the final showdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pigtown Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733175036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.50d","brand":"Frank Hickey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38020307026101,"sku":"9781733175036","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f3365f89-eb43-4ab6-bdcd-9349e4077781.jpg?v=1609175111","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/real-cops-9781733175036","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}